A number of people have died and others have been injured in a road crash in Co Louth last night.

Labour leader Ivana Bacik has called for the Government to confirm a timeline for a "unity referendum" on Northern Ireland in her leader's address to the party's annual conference this evening.

Confidence is high, belief is building game by game, but can Ireland put in another heroic performance just three days after an energy-sapping, high octane victory over Portugal?

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has slammed new joint military exercises by the United States and its ally Trinidad and Tobago as "irresponsible," with the US increasing its armed presence in the Caribbean.

Latest census figures show around 22,000 Presbyterians in the Irish Republic predominately in the border counties and Dublin. The numbers in Northern Ireland stand at 316,000. It is a faith with significant reach, though obviously not all are churchg...